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• Turner Hives Off Its Online Sports Servcie Provider PlayOn; New Company Gets Funding

  Content Next - 2008-12-10

  Turner, part of Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), which has surprisingly been scaling back some of its original online efforts, has now sold off its online sports site services provider PlayOn Sports to a new Atlanta-based company called 2080 Media. The company is focused on production and distribution of broadband...

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• Network Reclaims Old Name.

  - 2006-10-09

  By Mike Reynolds RSN Aims To Provide An Insider's View Serving Local Clubs The name may be old, but SportSouth wants to put a new face - one with a lot more local lines - on its...

  Tags: Games, moniker, network, NETWORKING, NHL, South, Turner, Turner Broadcasting System Inc.

• Sexing up the program networks: fending off rivals with new strategies.

  - 2004-05-31

  Call it a hiccup. Or, more accurately, a case of the hiccups that slowed the sprinter down just long enough to allow a growing field of rivals to gain ground. This is one way to describe what has gone on over the last...

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• Media mogul Ted Turner to become star on Hollywood sidewalk

  - 2004-04-07

  LOS ANGELES AFP ? Hollywood was poised to walk all over US media mogul Ted Turner when he is immortalised with his own star on Tinseltown's Walk of Fame. The billionaire founder of Cable News Network CNN television, will join the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin and Bob...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Cable, ceremony, Hollywood, movie, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Turner Broadcasting System Inc., TVs

• Hispanic Audience Catches Attention of Cable Networks.

  - 2003-11-12

  By Caroline Wilbert, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 12--The company behind Food Network and Home & Garden Television is researching a decorating, cooking and gardening channel targeted at Latinos. E.W. Scripps Co., which has been testing a...

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• Upfront looks like buyers' market.

  - 2002-05-06

  While many participants see the 2002-03 upfront shaping up as the second straight buyers' market -- after years of being a sellers' market -- there seems to be little agreement on what to expect beyond that. Historically, upfronts have served as...

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• Research Guru Sieber leaves nest at Turner: data from set-tops will lead to complications, he predicts

  - 2002-01-07

  The retirement of Turner research executive Bob Sieber--one of cable's pioneering executives in the realm of audience measurement and testing--marks what one cable executive and former colleague calls "the end of an era for cable" and, in several respects, for the Turner Broadcasting System. Sieber announced late last month...

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• Brad Siegel's Hot Seat Rests on Many Fires.(Interview)(Company Profile)(Statistical Data Included)

  - 2000-05-01

  Several cliff-hangers have unfolded at Turner Broadcasting System Inc. during the past few months. Primetime ratings for Turner Network Television and TBS Superstation took a pounding in the first quarter. Part of that can be blamed on double-digit drops in viewership for both World Championship Wrestling...

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• Schiller, Coke's Koonin to Fill Key Turner Jobs.(People)(Brief Article)

  - 2000-02-14

  Turner Broadcasting System Inc. filled several key executive posts last week, going in-house to name a successor to Cable News Network programmer Pat Mitchell and recruiting a top Coca-Cola Co. marketer as general manager of Turner Network Television. Vivian Schiller, 38, was...

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• TNT and TBS Superstation Acquire Exclusive Broadcast Network Window Premiere Rights to Random Hearts, Blue Streak and Other Top Titles From Columbia TriStar Television Distribution

  - 1999-10-06

  ATLANTA--ENTERTAINMENT WIRE--Oct. 6, 1999-- The eagerly anticipated Harrison Ford film Random Hearts, the hit Martin Lawrence comedy Blue Streak and five other Columbia Pictures releases will have their exclusive network television premieres on Turner Network Television TNT and TBS Superstation, under a licensing agreement announced today...

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